Luis Paulo Santos is an Assistant Professor at the Universidade do Minho, Portugal. He published several papers on both computer graphics and parallel processing on international conferences and journals. He managed two nationally funded graphics R&D projects and participates in multiple European projects with both academia and industry. His main research interests lie on Interactive Global Illumination and Parallel Processing. He has been a member of the Direction Board of the Portuguese chapter of Eurographics since 2008, was Deputy Director of the University of Minho's Department of Informatics from 2010-2012, and Director of the Doctoral Program on Informatics over the same period. He also acts as Associate Editor of Elsevier's Computers & Graphics journal.